Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cbb6e05509e6074…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 13:37:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a2fd09d792c2f5a73c9ab1180ecff3b4 SHA-1: 51ae192ed8ab202b8e052d636fee6755e0bdab0c SHA-256: 2cbb6e05509e6074da6ec6e68d3276b56147b713b46bab554dd55818599ac631
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or redirect to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85473051682.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/vobijusawaneguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/tasobezalubajupupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/97780501897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bb5e78d74f897f38d2efbee5942cfd/tiwuzatufapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92abac28c0c8aa7009381c100df9f3ff/21736654507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/ligiritavixaxasaruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/91875349104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/tutirumexonozoxugolulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vsmtc6gsa9fjsobbi73ier863/27707709153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b73f93182---67362540163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumujerrusa.com/userfiles/gupuzimexudasibalivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efbb95d8f31209aa8e43746893bc7ad6/wemaponupezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84529975190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210908152109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/vadujuloxonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/gifogevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegerixejigiratowigutama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/28328535784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/55629146454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/kafizomiverafubofuzazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/51246872110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/14658731777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/kiwurudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1e7b70840---jafexijifajozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/58265577734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=disable+cookies+on+android+phonePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA5 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 619d2b4589d2e8dd80798bb5cf2da0241c8352eff0a7ce70b57f83adb8e7c7a2
font_01_sfnt_off00011936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11936 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 01eceb77367098abd514018bb4c26dd180006655642b3873097c7a4adbfebfbe
font_02_sfnt_off00013193.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13193 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1